Easy Lunchboxes Review and Giveaway

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!

As a mom with 2 children in school who are sometimes very picky about what they eat, meaning 3/4 of the time they want a home packed lunch rather than the one the school has, I am always looking for a way to make lunches more efficiently.  Along comes Easy Lunchboxes, something that helps with the lunch packing process and makes for less trash, which in return is helping me to be a little more “green” .  Usually it was 3 sandwich bags, one for the sandwich, one for the chips and one for the treat.  So everyday between my two boys they were throwing away 6 sandwich bags.  Not to mention sometimes their food would get smushed.  What is a mother to do?

Easy Lunchbox is a 3 compartment container, one main compartment perfect for the sandwich or main entree.  Two smaller compartments perfect for dips, sides or in my case chips and the treat.  My kids go to school with nothing smushed and they  are doing their part to help the environment even if in a small way.  Because the containers are dishwasher safe they are not throwing ANY trash away at lunch anymore (their drinks are in their thermos so they already brought those home).

How did Easy Lunchboxes come to be?  No worries I was just headed in that direction:

Kelly Lester is the mom behind the lunchbox.  Easy Lunchboxes was born out of Kelly’s innate ability to do things efficiently while on a shoestring budget, and her desire to send her daughters to school with simple, healthy food, with little to no extra packaging or ingredients. Her past struggle with weight control inspires her to teach and model healthy eating habits for her children, and has fueled her dedication to always send them off to school with a great lunch. (Taken from site)

What you may not (or may if you read my blog regularly) is that I work evenings as a Pharmacy Technician, I only work a 4 hour shift 6-10.  Working only a 4 hour shift I don’t get a dinner break but rather one 15 minute break.  At home I usually don’t eat dinner until about 6:30/7:00 so having to eat by 5 I usually am wanting a snack around 7:30/8:00 when it’s time for my break, but I don’t want to shell out 1.00 for vending machine chips or a candy bar.  Easy Lunchbox has remedied that situation for me.  I can easily make a sandwich and some fruit to eat on my 15 minute break.  More often than not though I will put carrots and celery in the main compartment with peanut butter and ranch in the two small compartments.  Or strawberries and apples with caramel and yogurt in the small.  It’s great to be able to bring a healthy snack for my breaks.

If you want to purchase a system for yourself you can get the 4 compartmentalized containers for $13.95 and the cooler box for $7.95 over at Easy Lunchbox.

WIN IT:

ONE lucky reader will win a Easy Lunchbox system which includes 4 compartmentalized containers (with lids) and one lunch cooler in the color of your choice.

REQUIRED ENTRY: Head over to Easy Lunchboxes and look at the colors available for the lunch coolers and let me know which color you want if you are the winner.  THIS IS THE REQUIRED ENTRY AND MUST BE DONE!

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• 5 Entries Each: Blog about this giveaway with a link back to this post. Leave the post url in your comment.
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• Unlimited Entries: Tweet about this giveaway as many times as you would like using the following tweet: Lunches Made Easy with Easy Lunchbox http://bit.ly/9uD7vP .  Giveaway from @totally_toni #dailydosegiveaways (Must have 50 followers to qualify for this). Please leave tweet url in comment.

Giveaway will close on April 19, 2010 at Noon CST

Details to pay attention to when entering contests at A Daily Dose:

1. Required entry MUST be done to qualify, not following this entry will result in all entries being deleted.
2. Optional entries can only be done IF the required entry has been met.  However they are completely optional and do not have to be done.
3. Be sure to leave a SEPARATE comment for each entry so you don’t short yourself
4. Winner will be picked at random by Random.Org
5. Winner will be emailed using the email they supplied to enter and will have 48 hours to respond or prize will be redrawn.

For more on my review, giveaway and winner policies please see my disclosure.

*Disclaimer: I received a set of 4 Easy Lunchboxes and one cooler bag to facilitate my review.  Reception of product does not influence my views.   Opinions seen in this post are that of my own and no monetary compensation was made for this post.